Oh, they're smoking it alright. (although their rolling could use some help)
Posted on 09/07/2006 11:14:52 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Opponents: Trans-Texas Corridor Too Big, Even For Texas
DALLAS -- Gov. Rick Perry has proposed the Trans-Texas Corridor, and now his political opponents are making it a big issue in the race for governor.
It would cost billions of dollars to build a new highway running across Texas near Interstate 35.
I-35 is the only major north-south corridor in the state of Texas.
“It’s impossible to widen the highway in some areas,” Texas Department of Transportation spokesman Mark Ball said. “So the alternative is to build a separate corridor.”
But the Texas Transportation Corridor is much more than just a highway from Mexico to Oklahoma, blazing a trail three times wider than the average highway -- wide enough for more than just cars and trucks.
“The corridor is for rail, it's for commercial use for trucks, it's for private use, and it's also for utilities,” Ball said.
But opponents said the Trans-Texas Corridor is too big, even for Texas.
“Twelve hundred feet wide is far more than your average interstate. Your average interstate would be about 350 feet wide,” corridor opponent Linda Stall said.
“You're putting traffic lanes with high-speed rail and all the high fencing that goes with that, creating a barrier across Texas, dividing Texas everywhere it goes,” Stall said.
North Texas transportation leaders support the project.
"If we don't have this avenue that we're going to add to our infrastructure, then Texas is going to begin to go backwards as far as our economy, as far as jobs, because once we lose our infrastructure and our transportation, everything goes downhill from there,” Denton County Commissioner Sandy Jacobs said.
But leaders said they want the corridor to go around both sides of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
“What that does for us is that it integrates a within-region route and an inner-city route into the same right of way,” North Texas Council of Governments Michael Morris
Because tolls would pay for the corridor, it guarantees transportation will remain a big campaign issue.
Please walk me through the logic of your post above.
He is beginning to make a lot of sence.
He said he'd put 10,000 Texas National Guard troops on the border. I don't know how many guardsmen we have, but it's a good start.
I believe the expression is "Millstone", but I get your meaning d;^)
Kinky does not have a chance.
I will vote for Perry so will most people with half a brain! Not that I like him, (he is a freaking aggie) but he is best out of those running. Kinky is laughable.
grandma is nuts, kinky is a joke, bell is a socialist, perry is the best one out of those who are running..... and that does not say a whole lot.
What a fine example of Republicans cutting their own throats. I imagine Perry will survive, but he's taking a very stupid position. Every now and then, our Republican "leaders" need to tell the big corporations, "the hell with you."
Maybe, but I get to vote my conscience and send a message to the idiots running the Texas GOP at the same time.
It almost makes me wish Clayton Williams would run again.
LOL
Or in Perry's case, "Adios, Mofo!"
Yes, this is one case where I'd be cool with bilingualism!
I've said it in previous posts, put them together in apartment in Austin and we would have a Texas version of Seinfeld..
"You're putting traffic lanes with high-speed rail and all the high fencing that goes with that, creating a barrier across Texas, dividing Texas everywhere it goes,” Stall said."
Just like those darn barriers I-35, I-45, I-10, I-20, and I-30. One of these days we will figure out how to get across those darn things.
Since texastoo appears unwilling to assist, I will attempt a forensic investigation of the reasoning behind the above comment:
hedgetrimmer found (on-line) a brochure for a seminar held in New York regarding the developing market in the private construction/operation/management of public projects. This brochure mentions the OECD (much like a brochure for a baseball seminar might mention the MLB Players Association). The current head of the OECD was born in Mexico. Mexico (and other OECD nations) are members of the UN. Therefore, the UN (despite having no relation to the OECD other than a country may belong to both), through its Mexican proxy, is "screwing the American taxpayer" for the TTC (a "free trade road," whatever that is).Good stuff, if one could roll it and smoke it.
Oh, they're smoking it alright. (although their rolling could use some help)
I would stay clear of the OECD, however. Their "Economic Cooperation and Development" includes making sure all their members (and other countries, as well) have high-tax regimes.
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